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The King Has Arrived: Kendrick Lamar’s Stellar Black Panther Soundtrack Is Now Streaming

All hail the king. Kendrick Lamar and Top Dawg Entertainment have released the album they cultivated and produced for Black Panther, and it’s about to become your regular playlist for the next week, and then some. Black Panther: The Album has got to be one of the best comic book soundtracks that’s been released in…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Get a Taste of Coco as a Full-Fledged Musical With This Original Opening Number

Disney Pixar’s Coco is more of a movie with music than a musical, but during its earlier stages of development, it was going to be a full-blown songified romp through the Land of the Dead. After seeing the early plans for the opening number, all I can say is I’m thrilled it ended up changing.…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Paul Allen’s Got Licks!

Legendary producer and arranger Quincy Jones has worked with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Michael Jackson, and he’s old enough now (almost 85!) not to give a shit about saying what, for non-legendary folks in a cutthroat, moribund industry, could be a career-ending gaffe. Various revelations from an interview published in Vulture this morning include:…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Kendrick Lamar Was Only Going to Do a Few Songs for Black Panther… Until He Saw the Movie

Black Panther is one of the most-anticipated superhero films to date, so it’s no surprise it also has an equally hyped soundtrack. This weekend will see the release of Black Panther: The Album, curated and produced by Kendrick Lamar. This was a collaboration dreamed up years in advance, but only became what it was after…

Movies Beth Elderkin

This Browser Tool Lets You Remix Spotify’s Recommendation Algorithm

A new browser tool lets Spotify Premium users fool around with the music streaming platform’s famous recommendation algorithm. Arielle Vaniderstine, an engineer at the company, posted a link to Glitch on Monday of a beta build of the tool. Called “Nelson,” the tool displays several sliders representing the “audio features” that inform the algorithm. From…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

Listen to the Full Version of the Kanye West Cover Used in the New Westworld Trailer

The first season of HBO’s Westworld had a lot of standout qualities, but one of the coolest style tricks it regularly used was placing unexpected versions of pop songs in key scenes—like an orchestral version of “Paint it Black” during a shootout, or the player piano plinking out “Black Hole Sun” as Maeve prepared to…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Kendrick Lamar’s Black Panther Soundtrack Gets a Track List, Release Date, and a Badass Cover

Black Panther might not hit theaters until February 16, but fans eager for an early visit to Wakanda can soon check out the much-anticipated Kendrick Lamar-produced soundtrack album, which features some equally impressive artists. Lamar confirmed last month that he was working with Top Dawg Entertainment founder Anthony Tiffith to curate and produce Black Panther:…

Movies Beth Elderkin

The Proclaimers’ Classic ‘500 Miles’ Impressively Recreated Using 127 Movies

You really can find anything on the internet. Like, for example, this video of movie clips edited to “sing” the relentlessly cheery ‘90s hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by the Proclaimers. It’s something you’d never think to watch or make, but now that it exists, we’re all better for it. The amount of work…

Movies Germain Lussier

7 Apps You Should Ditch iTunes For

As iTunes creaks and wheezes its way into its 17th year of existence, for a lot of music lovers it’s fallen from favor as the go-to application for managing a local library and cranking out the tunes. If you’re looking for something that can provide a simpler, more intuitive way of playing music from your…

Gadgets David Nield

Everybody Cut Loose, Force-loose, Kick a Praetorian Guard in the Caboose

When thinking about the Star Wars universe, real world pop culture doesn’t normally come to mind. But one fan has taken an epic scene from The Last Jedi and paired it with popular music that has no right to fit this well into the galaxy far, far away. Twitter user @rachlikesbands has put together a…

Movies Jill Pantozzi

This Trippy Music Video Is Made of 3D Fractals

What you’re watching isn’t organic, but a computer-generated visualization of complex mathematics. It’s a three-dimensional fractal. The clip is a new music video for the song “Eternal Recurrence” by electronic music group Birds of Paradise, created by Dutch fractal artist Julius Horsthuis. Producing the visuals to accompany the soundscape required rendering mathematical formulas in the…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Celebrating Some of the Best, Worst, and Weirdest Scifi Music Videos

If video killed the radio star, you’d damn well think YouTube killed the need to make flashy music videos. But, magically, they’re still around, and some of them are turning out the coolest science fiction stories of the past few decades. Sure, there are some clunkers (like that time Justin Timberlake made a robot that…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Billy Joel and H.P. Lovecraft ‘Sing Us a Song’ for Cthulhu

Turns out, it’s surprisingly easy to take Billy Joel’s song “Piano Man” and turn it into an ode to the Elder Gods long gone. It was recently discovered on Twitter that the meter of the famous Joel tune syncs up almost perfectly with a 1917 poem by H.P. Lovecraft called “Nemesis.” Naturally, it didn’t take…

io9 Beth Elderkin

The Game of Thrones Theme Sounds Smarter When Played on a Bunch of Calculators

It’s a song of ice and mathematics. YouTuber It’s a small world has debuted her latest jam, which uses four calculators to recreate the theme song to Game of Thrones. The artist has done versions of Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, and other iconic themes, and it’s awesome to see her tackling this one…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Report: Spotify Has Confidentially Filed to Go Public

It’s been a whirlwind over the past few years as big tech unicorns continue to leave private waters to seek out that lucrative public money. According to Axios, the latest company to join those ranks is Spotify, which reportedly filed for an IPO sometime during the end of December. Unfortunately, Axios says the filing was…

Games Sam Rutherford

Fourth Grade Band Class Is Way Better With Vocoders, Drum Machines, and Daft Punk

When I was in grade school, the only reason I took band class was to avoid spending two hours in study hall every week. My motivations would have been completely different, however, were I raised in South Korea where fourth graders get to perform Daft Punk tracks instead of Sousa’s greatest hits. I’m not only…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

The Monster Mash Guy Rushed Out a Christmas Version of the Song in 1962 and It’s Super Weird

Every year around Halloween, you can’t turn on the radio without hearing the novelty song “Monster Mash.” Released by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers in August 1962, it was such an instant hit that Pickett rushed out a Christmas version of the song called “Monsters’ Holiday” by December of that same year. If you…

Tech News Matt Novak

Adam West Gets in Touch With His Punk Side With This Cover of ‘The Thing’

Adam West may sadly no longer be with us, but his holiday gifts continue to rain down like Robin’s laid eggs. A song from the upcoming tribute album for an iconic radio host features West taking on one of the coolest scifi jams of the 1950s: “The Thing.” Dr. Demento Covered in Punk is a two-hour…

io9 Beth Elderkin

What a Good Soundtrack Does

Last weekend, while driving my kid to swim class, I was nodding my head along to the bassline of a song playing in the car. “Do you like this song, Daddy?” my daughter asked. My answer was yes. Yes, I like that one song from the My Little Pony: The Movie soundtrack. A month ago,…

Movies Evan Narcisse

Was It a Good Idea to Beam Our Best Techno to an Alien World?

In the year 2030, a powerful radio transmission originating from Earth will arrive at a potentially habitable exoplanet located approximately 12.4 light years away. Should any alien intelligence be there to receive it, they’re in for quite a treat: This binary stream of data contains short musical clips from some of the world’s best electronic…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

The King Has Arrived: Kendrick Lamar’s Stellar Black Panther Soundtrack Is Now Streaming

Get a Taste of Coco as a Full-Fledged Musical With This Original Opening Number

Paul Allen’s Got Licks!

Kendrick Lamar Was Only Going to Do a Few Songs for Black Panther… Until He Saw the Movie

This Browser Tool Lets You Remix Spotify’s Recommendation Algorithm

Listen to the Full Version of the Kanye West Cover Used in the New Westworld Trailer

Kendrick Lamar’s Black Panther Soundtrack Gets a Track List, Release Date, and a Badass Cover

The Proclaimers’ Classic ‘500 Miles’ Impressively Recreated Using 127 Movies

7 Apps You Should Ditch iTunes For

Everybody Cut Loose, Force-loose, Kick a Praetorian Guard in the Caboose

This Trippy Music Video Is Made of 3D Fractals

Celebrating Some of the Best, Worst, and Weirdest Scifi Music Videos

Billy Joel and H.P. Lovecraft ‘Sing Us a Song’ for Cthulhu

The Game of Thrones Theme Sounds Smarter When Played on a Bunch of Calculators

Report: Spotify Has Confidentially Filed to Go Public

Fourth Grade Band Class Is Way Better With Vocoders, Drum Machines, and Daft Punk

The Monster Mash Guy Rushed Out a Christmas Version of the Song in 1962 and It’s Super Weird

Adam West Gets in Touch With His Punk Side With This Cover of ‘The Thing’

What a Good Soundtrack Does

Was It a Good Idea to Beam Our Best Techno to an Alien World?

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